Once again I was gracing the banks of the mighty Glebe
Fishery in Leicestershire, for this match my partner was Steve, it was going to
be an easy day for me on the coaching side as I had sat behind him a couple of
years ago and he had been sat on the same lake the day before during a practice
session. Speaking of the day before I
had been sat on peg 90 on Lake 6 and as I had some casters left over from the
day before I had decided to see if they would work shallow. The simple answer was no and I had seen enough
of other people catching on the short pole to know that this was the way to
go. I had still managed nearly 130lb
though and a lot of that had come from down the edge in the last hour, I
managed 40lb in the last 20 minutes!!!
Back to the day in question though and we were on
adjacent pegs Steve on 70 and I was on 71 on Lake 4, it was really nice as we
could park behind our pegs, the plan was to fish the feeder for a couple of
hours and then corn or paste short and paste or corn down the edge. I didn’t set up a corn rig for down the edge
as I have too much faith in paste at this venue. The feeder was slow for both of us and after
the first couple of hours I had 20lb in the net and Steve had about 30lb. I suggested that it was slow due to the
changeable weather and that it would get better later, I was proved right and
again over the last couple of hours my feeder and short paste lines started to
produce a few fish. I had to feed positively on the feeder line so I was
recasting every 20 seconds to try and draw fish into the swim and it worked for
a quick run of fish. When I moved onto
the short line I was struggling with liners as a lot of the fish seemed to be
sitting a few inches off the bottom, but, positive feeding with a big pot ¼ full
of 6mm pellet, hemp and corn soon had them feeding on the deck again and
again. I managed to have a really good
run again close to the end where I put about 40lb of fish in the net over the
last 30 minutes and I managed to finish with 144lb 2oz of fish. Steve did well and managed around 70lb of
carp and bits but this was only enough for us to come 4th overall as
a pair, we did however, win the lake so that was a nice bonus. We would have
had to go some to beat Adi and Terry on Lake 5 as Adi managed a massive 200lb+
weight on his own!!
The main plus of the day was chatting with Steve and
trying to make him better at casting and also to try and get his head away from
the F1 fishing that he is used to.
What would I do differently?
Due to the weather I should have had some dead maggots
for the feeder and also tried different hookbaits more. The short Paste line was my saviour, but it
only really woke up in the last hour or so, which means I may have to look at
how I am feeding it.
Tackle used:
Feeder:
Rod: Drennan 11’6” medium feeder 2oz tip.
Reel: Daiwa TDM 4012
Line: 8lb sensor to 0.19mm
Hook: 14 QM1
Feeder: 20g guru open end feeder with 5g of extra lead
Pellet wag:
Rod: Drennan Acolyte Carp waggler 12ft.
Reel: Daiwa TDM 3012
Line: 0.20mm Supplex to 0.19mm Powerline
Hook: 14 QM1 (thanks Kev)
Float: 6-10g Preston pellet wag
Pole Corn:
Elastic: Preston 13h
Line: 0.19mm to 0.15mm
Hook: 3 T175
Float: 0.4g Drennan Carp 3
Pole Paste:
Elastic: Preston 17H
Line: 0.21mm to 0.19mm Powerline
Hook: 5 T175
Float: 4X10 Big H Paste
Pole Margin Paste:
Elastic: Preston 17H
Line: 0.21mm to 0.19mm Powerline
Hook: 5 T175
Float: KC Carpa Margin 4X10
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